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Business Attorney Richard Hoeg

Richard Hoeg (“Rick”) has lived and worked in Michigan his entire life. After receiving his undergraduate degree in Economics from Hillsdale College, he attended the world-renowned University of Michigan Law School. Richard graduated in the top five of his class while focusing on corporate governance and transactional law.

In 2005, Rick joined the Ann Arbor office of Miller Canfield Paddock and Stone. As a corporate lawyer, Richard worked on venture capital transactions. He also worked on mergers and acquisitions, and entrepreneurial law. In 2007, he joined the Honigman law firm where he continued representing venture capital funds and their portfolio companies, as well as technology and biopharmaceutical spin-offs of the University of Michigan, before forming Hoeg Law in 2016.

Rick has extensively researched and reviewed the Michigan Business Corporation Act and Delaware General Corporation Law in his role as co-author of the 2009 through 2017 supplements of Michigan Corporate Law and Practice.

An avid gamer, Rick expanded his practice to include information technology, software licensing, and related contractual and intellectual property law issues, with a particular focus on Software-as-a-Service and custom software development. Together with his pharmaceutical and medical device clients, Rick’s software clients represent some of the cutting edge technological advancement happening in Ann Arbor and the Midwest.

Rick is the creator of YouTube’s “Virtual Legality” where he regularly talks to tens of thousands of subscribers and viewers on important legal issues of the day, generally through the lens of popular culture.

After passage of the Jobs Act in 2012, Rick has followed and advised his clients on the SEC’s slow but continuing push to democratize the corporate financing process through “crowdfunding” and related regulations including Rule 506(c), Regulation A+, and “Regulation: Crowdfunding”. He has also extensively advised clients on Michigan’s own “Michigan Invests Locally Exemption” (MILE), and given talks and presentations on such topics to the Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE), The University of Michigan, Michigan State College of Law, Ann Arbor SPARK, and the Michigan Angel Fund.

Rick has extensively researched and reviewed the Michigan Business Corporation Act and Delaware General Corporation Law in his role as co-author of the 2009 through 2017 supplements of Michigan Corporate Law and Practice.

Rick lives in Northville, Michigan with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not watching Michigan football, he’s likely to be found with his head in a VR helmet, or attending one of his daughters’ soccer games or ballet recitals.

Education/Admission

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., ​Magna Cum Laude
Hillsdale College, B.A., Economics, ​Summa Cum Laude
Admitted to Practice in Michigan

Focus Areas

Corporate Governance/Formation
Corporate Finance
Commercial Contracts
Software/SAAS
Venture Capital
​Mergers and Acquisitions
Intellectual Property Licensing
Securities/Crowdfunding

Representative Experience

Assisted venture capital fund in financing of Medicare management services company
Assisted private equity fund with conditional acquisition of Texas-based insurance agency​
Aided major real estate development fund in understanding and complying with securities filing requirements with SEC and in more than 20 separate states
Aided multinational client with in-sourcing and custom development of software and hardware user interface materials
Represented university professors in disparate matters related to various technology-based “spin off” corporations

Representative Publications/Speeches

Michigan Corporate Law and Practice, 2009-2017 (Annual Supplement)
Private Money Goes Public, Institute of Continuing Legal Education Presentation, 2015
SEC Eliminates Rules on General Solicitation: Rule 506(c),Michigan Angel Fund, 2013

Honors

Michigan Super Lawyers​, Rising Star (2010, 2012-2016)
Inclusion in the 25th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America